{"id":427,"date":"2011-01-28T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/28\/quake\/"},"modified":"2011-01-28T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T06:28:00","slug":"quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/28\/quake\/","title":{"rendered":"Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember bits and pieces.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mexican schools took the dress code seriously and my mother was upset that I had wrinkled my pressed shirt when jumping on the bed. The morning was hurried and I had delayed us 5 minutes while she re-ironed my shirt.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was on my way back from having my milk in the kitchen when the shaking begun.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The record says that it was an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1985_Mexico_City_earthquake\">8.1<\/a> quake but to me if felt like the end of the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a moment, I saw my mother thrown across the kitchen like a rag doll. The force shocked my sisters and I and then the violent crash of glass begun. For what seemed an eternity the ground moved and tossed us. I was so scarred.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Once the movement ceased, my mother took stock of the condition of the house. So much had happened in such a short period but in her mind we still had a day to take on and we&#8217;d be late for school.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As soon as we started to make our way down our long street to the bus stop we noticed that things would not be okay for a while. Water was bursting from the sewers and many homes seemed in disarray.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We never made it too school that day. For the next 8 months life would not be as we knew it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My father was not about.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember bits and pieces. Mexican schools took the dress code seriously and my mother was upset that I had wrinkled my pressed shirt when jumping on the bed. The morning was hurried and I had delayed us 5 minutes while she re-ironed my shirt. I was on my way back from having my milk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/28\/quake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}